April 14, 1981: Landing of Columbia on STS-1

Dave Scott, Jim Irwin and Al Worden left for the Moon today in 1971 aboard Apollo 15 bound for Hadley rille with the first Lunar Roving Vehicle.

Navigating the 48-mile Panama Canal that slices through the isthmus, the final shipment of a space shuttle external fuel tank emerged into the Pacific for a three-week trek to California.

#OTD in 1997…Columbia launched on the reflight of her shortened Microgravity Science Laboratory mission